SachiTheSearcher wrote:But is the ld50 measured orally if the test chemicals arent food grade. I was thinking subdermal
Lethal Dose tests (LD50) can be by any route of exposure. The usual ones are:
ORAL
INHALATION
CONTACT WITH SKIN (DERMAL)
Inhalation is usually divided up into VAPORS, DUST/MIST or GAS.
There's no reason why you can't do sub-cutaneous LD50 testing but it's not common because it's unlikely if you're using a substance in the normal course of your day.
Anyway if it's toxicity by swallowing you're testing, you write ORAL before LD50 by standard convention. You normally add the species it was tested on too - great!!!
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